What's your approach to browser testing?

If only making products for the web were a simple fire-and-forget business, life would be much easier. Of course, when you think you've crafted the list line of code, the story is far from over. You need to start testing and – given the varied browser landscape – exploring how your site works in different environments.

There are lots of different ways you can test for browser compatibility. To explore preferences and approaches, net magazine recently asked its Twitter followers to vote for their favourite method. Here are the results of the survey (in the poll, voters could only nominate one approach as their prefered methodology).

Browser testing results

Desktop load time testing – 15%: Attacking the problem of performance testing by measuring the response time for server-based applications.

Physical mobile device testing – 15%: Arguably the most reliable way of seeing how sites actually behaves across a slew of different physical devices.